[lack-of-trust]

3.5 million square feet and nobody knows who owns the old Packard Plant in Detroit.

Is graffiti still a crime when the building is falling down?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ask the man who owns one.

[lack-of-trust]

Photo’s at the link. (I don’t know enough code to post them, if you are going to post insturction... post the pics while you are at it.)

[wideawake]

The annoyingness of the whole Banksy phenomenon aside, I highly doubt that the owner of record is paid up on their property taxes. Unless they were operating under some tax-free deal with the city (which is possible) the city is now likely the legal owner.

[La Lydia]

If that is art, I am an aeronautical engineer. Pictures of Packard plant here.

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index02.html

[Krankor]

Doesn’t anyone see the irony in a graffiti street “artist” posting the message, “I remember when all this was all trees”. Isn’t this akin to the guy who kills his parents and then laments he’s an orphan?

[APFel]

Is Detroit so bereft of ANYTHING of value that they now have to fight over the garbage?

APf

[KarlInOhio]

Back in May when this issue came up before, I sarcastically commented that with the decay and deurbanization of Detroit, within a generation you could carve on one of the trees growing there "I remember when this was a factory". Freeper Nateman then photoshopped this picture:

[a fool in paradise]

British-born and highly-secretive street artist Banksy recently descended on the decrepit Packard plant, leaving his mark behind in the form of an image of a young boy holding a can of red paint. Beside the boy are the words"I remember when all this was trees."

The artwork is a cliched lie.

[a fool in paradise]

So they don’t know “who owns it”. No one must be paying the property taxes on it then. Seize it for delinquency.

[Tainan]

Tear this down.
Plant it in crops.
Make food.



F**k Banksy.
my US$.02